A 113-million-year-old hell ant fossil discovered in northeastern Brazil's Crato Formation represents the oldest known ant specimen in the fossil record. The remarkable preservation reveals ...

Deep under the Jurassic rock beds of New South Wales, scientists discovered fossilized insects that push back the history of one of the world’s most hardy families of flies. These fragile traces, ...

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Snakefly (Dichrostigma flavipes). This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Nov. 7, 2014 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by B. Misof at Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The insect world teems with beautiful and dazzling species ...

Understanding the evolution of insect mating behavior is essential for explaining how early insects adapted to life on land. A new study examines Petrobiellus akkesiensis, a rare jumping bristletail, ...

Some insects can flap their wings so rapidly that it’s impossible for instructions from their brains to entirely control the behaviour. Building tiny flapping robots has helped researchers shed light ...

A new study examining stick and leaf insect species has found evidence of convergent evolution, with all of the insects ...

Researchers have found that stick insects keep evolving the same 20 body plans, from the "tree lobster'" to the "bark hugger" and the "large-headed stick." When you purchase through links on our site, ...

Red flour beetle (Tribolium castaneum). This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Nov. 7, 2014 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by B. Misof at Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum ...